This is my first post btw so bear with me, and I hope this is in the right forum.

But I'm from Australia, and I am going to the US (Hawaii) next week. I want to buy myself about 10 eyeshadows to start off my MAC collection as the prices out here are just so rudely high! :crap:

I have brown eyes (almost hazel with yellow flecks), dark brown hair and light olive skin which tans. Colours I usually wear are:
* Beiges, taupes and bronze
* Green
* Violets and plums

I might splurge and buy a few so go nuts with examples please! Also how much do they cost over there $US?

What would you say the "must have" MAC e/s colours are?

I've aleady been lurking on the forums and so far I like the sound of
* shroom
* greensmoke
* woodwinked
* trax
* smut

You've absolutely got the right forum! Duh, just read that your colouring is fairly similar to mine, here are some of my suggestions:

Velvet Moss
Plum Dressing
Beautiful Iris or Parfait Amour
Sumptuous Olive
def Woodwinked
Sensualise if still available (LE but just released)
Inventive Eyes quad?

I love all of these except W'winked - it just doesn't work on my nw20 skin. Don't know why!

By the way, welcome to Specktra.

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i also have brown hair/brown eyes/olive skin ... i vote for:

tempting
gleam
retrospeck
goldmine
sumptuos olive (goes great with goldmine, and greensmoke!)

I'm not sure if this helps, but in "Chanel Vitalumiere Foundation" I wear #20 Clair.

I recommend:

Sumptuous Olive
Tempting
Retrospeck
Shroom
Rice Paper
Aria
and Idol Eyes

i have the dark hair/and light olive skin (but i have so close to black eyes) but these are my recs:

shroom
inventive eyes (if at all possible- its a LE quad)
humid (gorgeous green)
sumptuous olive
sensualize (gorgeous)
mystical mist (such a pretty purple)
sketch
gorgeous gold
amber lights (such a staple i swear!!!)
wishful (LE but just came out and i love it)
carbon (black shadow, good for smoky eye)

Woodwinked is so awesome. Mulch, Humid, Sumptous Olive, Amber Lights, Mythology and Shroom are great as well. You should consider getting a Paint. Stilife goes with pretty much everything.

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